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Former Gerber Plant To Become Mixed-Use Urban Village

Posted by: Abhijeet Chavan
Thanks to: Rachel Harshman
14 December 2001 - 8:00am

A former Gerber Plant in Ashville, NC, will be redeveloped under new zoning into a New Urbanist development featuring mixed use buildings, pedestrian orientation, and public/private joint partnerships.

"The plan is based on the `new urbanism' approach to development. The Village at Gerber will include a street grid throughout the property with wide sidewalks, giving it the downtown feeling so prevalent of the new urbanism genre of development.All buildings will be low-rise, between two and four stories tall, with retail and commercial space on the ground floor, and on-street parallel parking."

Full Story: Former Gerber Plant To Become Urban Village
Source: Excite, December 13, 2001
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